CORESTA Congress, Edinburgh, 2010, AP 05
Abundance of tomato spotted wilt thrips vectors on alternative plant hosts associated with the tobacco farmscape in Georgia, U.S.A
McPHERSON R.M.; MOORE J.M.
Georgia Mountain Research and Education Center, Blairsville, GA, USA
Certain species of insect pests called thrips (Family: Thripidae) are known to transmit, or vector, tomato spotted wilt (TSW), a serious virus of flue-cured tobacco produced in the USA. The weed species present in the tobacco farmscape were sampled...